EngageAR AmeriCorps Programs
2019-2020
Program: Alternative Classroom Experience/Summer Camp
Description: Tutoring for at-risk youth grades 3-5 in a residential setting. Provide leadership training and environmental awareness training.
Sponsor: Kiwanis Activities, Inc. (Pfeifer Kiwanis Camp)
Contact: Binky Martin-Tollette, Program Director
Address: 5512 Ferndale Cutoff Rd., Little Rock, AR 72223
Phone: 501-821-3714 | Fax: 501-821-2629 | email
Program: Arkansas Reads
Description: Members provide basic literacy and ESL instructions to adults. They recruit and train volunteers to provide services to adults throughout the state.
Sponsor: Adult Learning Alliance of Arkansas
Contact: Belinda Sanders, Program Director
Contact: Nancy Leonhardt, ALC Executive Director
Address: 801 S. Louisiana St., Little Rock, AR 72201
Phone: 501-907-2490 | Fax: 501-907-2492 | email | email
Program: AR ALLIANCE OF BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS
Description: Members provide after-school enrichment activities and summer programming to children in various Boys & Girls Clubs in Arkansas.
Contact: Kayla Lawrence, Program Director
Address: 1810 Citizens Dr, Benton, AR 72015
Phone: 501-249-1628 | email
Program: AR Department Of Career ED/Adult Education
Description: They do not have members serving this year but are planning to have members provide assistance to Arkansans working to complete their GED in order to prepare and equip them for a successful career.
Contact: Todd Hunter, Program Director
Address: 3 Capitol Mall, Little Rock AR 72201
Phone: 501-682-1815 | email
Program: AR Resource Conservation & Development Council
Description: They do not have members serving this year but are planning to have them address food insecurity and nutritional education.
Contact: Jeremy Prater, Program Director
Address: 3913 Brooken Hill Dr, Ft. Smith, AR 72908
Phone: 479-650-1104 | email
Program: Boys and Girls Club of Central AR
Description: Provides youth engagement, service-learning strategies and summer programming to achieve overall academic and physical wellness outcomes for students in low-achieving schools.
Contact: Cindy Doramus, CEO
Address: 1400 W. Markham St, Suite 402 Little Rock, AR 72201
Phone: 501-666-8816 | email
Program: Kids in Drills
Description: Members will provide activities to military kids on drill weekends and annual training weeks. They will help kids build skills to cope with stresses associated with being a military child.
Sponsor: Camp Alliance, Inc
Contact: Tracy Blackmon, Program Director
Address: 2203 Promenade Blvd, Suite 3200, Rogers, AR 72758
Phone: 651-332-0562 | Fax: 479-936-5920 | email
Program: Community Service, Inc.
Description: Members will expand services of the organization by providing educational programs consisting of tutoring, mentoring and summer learning to youth ages 10-18
Contact: Jamie Higgins, Program Director
Address: PO Box 679, Morrilton, AR 72110
Phone: 501-354-4589 | Fax: 501-354-5410 | email
Program: Future Teacher Initiative
Description: Members tutor at-risk preschool students in southeast Arkansas to ensure students are socially, emotionally, and academically prepared for kindergarten.
Sponsor: Southeast Arkansas Education Service Cooperative
Contact: Kim Pesaresi
Address: 1022 Scogin Drive, Monticello, AR 71655
Phone: 870-367-4874 | Fax: 870-367-9877 | email
Program: Girl Scouts—Diamonds of Arkansas, Oklahoma & Texas
Description: Members will help girls in south Arkansas develop attributes that contribute to positive educational and behavioral outcomes, leading to key leadership skills.
Contact: Kim Burgess, Program Director
Address: 11311 Arcade Drive, Little Rock, AR 72212
Phone: 501-500-1850 l email
Program: Our House
Description: Provide job placement services and job support to unemployed and underemployed homeless or near-homeless adults; school-readiness interventions, development support and educational programming for pre-school children who are homeless or near-homeless.
Contact: Priscilla Howard, Program Director
Address: 302 E. Roosevelt Road, Little Rock, AR 72206
Phone: 501-374-7383, ext. 137 | email
Program: ST. Joseph Center of Arkansas, Inc.
Description: Members will address food insecurity and help provide access to healthy foods via school and community gardens in Pulaski County.
Contact: Amy Stewart, Program Director
Address: 6800 Camp Robinson Road, North Little Rock, AR 72118
Phone: 501-993-4560 | email
Program: Smart Start
Description: Members tutor students at increased risk for academic failure in math and literacy in southeast Arkansas schools.
Sponsor: Southeast Arkansas Education Service Cooperative
Contact: Jenny Satterlee, Program Director
Contact: Jerri Craven
Address: 1022 Scogin Drive, Monticello, AR 71655
Phone: 870-367-4825 | Fax: 870-367-9877 | email | email
Program: Jumpstart Arkansas 
Description: Members will teach literacy skills to pre-school children using the Jumpstart for Young Children curriculum.
Sponsor: University of AR – Fort Smith
Contact: Dr. Monica Riley, Program Director
Address: 5210 Grant Ave., Fort Smith AR 72913
Phone: 479-788-7912 | email
Program: UWNWA 2-1-1 Economic Vitality 
Description: Members will provide tax services through the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program and expand 2-1-1 resources throughout the state.
Sponsor: United Way of Northwest Arkansas
Contact: Emily Bartlett, Program Director
Address: 100 Parkwood St., Lowell AR 72745
Phone: 479-303-4417 | email
Program: University Of Central Arkansas
Description: Members will provide tutoring and mentoring programs, food recovery and gardening programs, and financial literacy programs through community partner sites.
Contact: Lesley Graybeal, Program Director
Phone: 501-852-7416 | email
Contact: Victoria Mays, Volunteer Coordinator
Phone: 501-852-0245 | email
Address: 201 Donaghey Ave, Torreyson West 324, Conway, AR 72035
